Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 24 | 15 | It backed up a bit and View more quotes about withdrew">withdrew its head further beneath the shell of its fused, golden wings. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 24 | 12 | I stood before her body, my sword drawn. |
| 24 | 13 | The creature seemed to be puzzled and made no move to attack. |
| 24 | 14 | Undoubtedly in its long life it had never encountered anything like this in its tunnels. |
| 24 | 15 | It backed up a bit and withdrew its head further beneath the shell of its fused, golden wings. |
| 24 | 16 | It lifted its hooked, tubular jaws before its eyes as though to shield them from the light. |
| 24 | 17 | It occurred to me then that the light of the Mul-Torch burning in the invariably dark tunnels of its domain may have temporarily blinded or disoriented the creature. |
| 24 | 18 | More likely the smell of the torch's oxidation products suddenly permeating its delicate antennae would have been as cacophonous to it as some protracted, discordant bedlam of noises might have been to us. |
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I stood before her body, my sword drawn.
The creature seemed to be puzzled and made no move to attack.
Undoubtedly in its long life it had never encountered anything like this in its tunnels.
It backed up a bit and withdrew its head further beneath the shell of its fused, golden wings.
It lifted its hooked, tubular jaws before its eyes as though to shield them from the light.
It occurred to me then that the light of the Mul-Torch burning in the invariably dark tunnels of its domain may have temporarily blinded or disoriented the creature.
More likely the smell of the torch's oxidation products suddenly permeating its delicate antennae would have been as cacophonous to it as some protracted, discordant bedlam of noises might have been to us.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)